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2018-12-22 Government
Government Shuts Down Over Border Wall Impasse
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-22 05:50|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 Democrats in the Senate shut the government down.

That should be the headline. If they would simply allow the vote, it would pass.

McConnel was gutless in allowing a voice vote instead of demanding a roll call to put all these Democrats on record as favoring a shutdown and opposing funding for the wall.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-22 09:37||   2018-12-22 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 
McConnel was gutless in allowing a voice vote instead of demanding a roll call

If he did that by his free choice, he is showing he is on the other side.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-22 09:40||   2018-12-22 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Unlike Obamacare, which passed with majority vote, this is a budget item to fund the already approved wall. Budget items are approved with a majority vote. I don't understand the issue here.
Posted by KBK 2018-12-22 13:22||   2018-12-22 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 "I don't understand the issue here."

The issue is that much of the GOPe doesn't want the wall any more than the Dims want it.

The good news is that this is a stare down Trump can win. Shutter the gov for 6 months and see what happens. People will get on with their lives. The worst possible outcome for the Dims and GOPe is that people realize that they aren't needed.
Posted by Iblis 2018-12-22 14:22||   2018-12-22 14:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The only people to get screwed are the troops. That will go over well, given something like 2/3rd of government spending is automatic. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-22 17:30||   2018-12-22 17:30|| Front Page Top

#6 As I understand it, much of the government has already been funded and therefore will not shut down.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-22 17:36||   2018-12-22 17:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Ask and ye shall receive. From An Nahar:

About three-quarters of the government, including the military and the Department of Health and Human Services, is fully funded until the end of September 2019, leaving 25 percent unfunded as of Saturday.

Most NASA employees will be sent home, as will Commerce Department workers and many at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Agriculture and State.

National parks will remain open, but most park staff will stay home while Washington is unable to accomplish one of its most basic tasks -- keeping the government up and running.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-22 22:04||   2018-12-22 22:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Aren't most government employees Democrats? This is actually kind of clever. I wonder what percent of the newly 'unemployed' voted for HRC?
Posted by Beau 2018-12-22 22:09||   2018-12-22 22:09|| Front Page Top

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